Frizztext’s first two alphabet challenges for 2013 are for the letters A and B. When possible, I plan to use Spanish words!

You might remember that I have my very own personal welcome wagon when I pass through the outskirts of town! Even if I am in a hurry, I always stop and bask in her gentle nature! (See Children & Their Gifts)

She makes me feel like royalty!

This past week when Maria dashed out to greet me, I thought, “If I’m going to stop and talk with her, we might as well have a lesson in English!”

I asked her to get a pencil and paper, then we plopped on a dollop of earth left behind by a road grader. Anticipating Frizztext’s story challenge, I asked her to name a word that started with “A.”

“Arbol,” she stated.

In my notebook, I wrote the word in Spanish then English and hurriedly drew a tree and said, “Tree.”

“Tree,” she repeated, then wrote the word and drew a tree as well!

Since I didn’t photograph our classwork, here’s a pencil drawing from years ago:

Palo de Agua – Pencil – 24″ x 36″ – Lisa Brunetti

Her sister joined us and selected the word for B.

“Bicicleta!”

Oh my! Thankfully they were happy with a hurried scribble of two circles and a few lines connecting them!

We wrote ten or twelve more words, and they practiced pronouncing them. Then I tore the page from my notebook and presented it to them before continuing home.

Here is an image of the sisters in their Christmas Eve finery!

I will close with more images of A for Arbol and B for Bicicleta!

El Salvador

Ecuador

Costa Rica

Republic of Panama

Kicked Back in Nicaragua (Near Hacienda Iguana)

Costa Rica

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua Bicycle Sunset

SJDS Nicaragua

Ecuador

(Costa Rica) Have a great day! Z

Frizztext kicked off the year with a new alphabet challenge. See more for A HERE and for B HERE.

That is so cool. Maybe others would have said hello to the two little girls and continued on, but your spirit of generosity gave them a gift they’ll never forget moving your special relationship on a higher level. I love it.

thank you! the young gals always make time to greet me, and sharing my language has always been hit or miss. it’s such an easy ‘upgrade’ to give them a little more. thank you so much; you’d probably have realized that sooner than i if you were walking in my shoes!!!
i’m glad you like the tree! painting is often ‘work’ while using a pencil is like breathing!

thanks; no,, i don’t have a good photo of one of those trees. that one grew on my property in costa rica – i loved it, though most people would be quick to cut it down because it was more dead than alive. it was a haven for birds, geckos and all kinds of critters! z

hey amiga
my thoughts have run your way so many times, and i hope that one of these days i get to meet you in person, and we bask in sharing stories. i am so proud of you.. please remember that you’re always there in my psyche, and i’m always sending you strong love and best wishes.
z